Indian Epigraphy c16.s3.6

c16.s3.6

⁴ Ibid., pp. 20, 53, 59-60, 66. The official designation *Rajjuka* is rarely found in later records possibly in the sense of 'a surveyor' (cf. *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXIV, p. 54 and note). Megasthenes seems to refer to the *Rajjukas* as the *Agronomoi* who collected taxes of land, measured the land and superintended the irrigation works. They are the *Rajjugrāhak-āmātya* of the Jātakas. See Raychaudhuri, Pol. His. Anc. Ind., 1938, pp. 241, 262-63.